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Fall 2009

  • New Day/Time: Tuesdays at 12:30! Same room: Duane Physics D142
  • August 25: First week of classes - Organizational meeting
  • September 1: Cora Randall - ATOC Program Review Process Discussion
  • September 8: Joan Alexander - http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl0819/2008GL034562/ Frequency of Severe Storms & Global Warming [Aumann et al., 2008]
  • September 15: ATOC Program Review Process - Student Input Discussion
  • September 22: Samuel LeBlanc - Overview of ATOC Skywatch Observatory
  • September 29: James Rudolph - Atmospheric Rivers
  • October 6:
  • October 13:
  • October 20: Samantha Stevenson - COMPS II Practice: A New Method for Diagnosing Model ENSO Variability
  • October 27: Carl Schmitt - Defense practice: The characteristics of mid- and low- latitude ice cloud crystals
  • November 3: Jih-Wang (Aaron) Wang - Towards A Robust Test on North America Warming Trend and Precipitable Water Content Increase
  • November 10: Cassie Wheeler - Reanalyses performance of cloud and boundary layer variables, and the surface energy budget over Arctic pack ice with observations from the year-long SHEBA field campaign
  • November 17: Linnea Avallone - Faculty Career Development Talk (specific topic coming later)
  • November 24: Fall Break
  • December 1:
  • December 8: AGU practice talks - 15 minutes 
A.) Dave Porter - Analysis of the Arctic heat and moisture budgets in WRF: a comparison with reanalyses and satellite observations
B.) OPEN
C.) OPEN
  • December 15: Finals

Spring 2009

  • January 21: No Journal Club
  • January 28: No Journal Club
  • February 4: Ryan Neely III: CO2 Detecting Lidar
  • February 11:
  • February 18: Reserved for Comps practice
  • February 25: Susanne Benze: Comps II Defense practice. Topic: Investigation of Polar Mesospheric Clouds observed by the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere satellite
  • March 4:
  • March 11:
  • March 18: Yolanda Roberts: ( Atmospheric Optical Phenomena and Radiative Transfer , Stanley David Gedzelman and Michael Vollmer)
  • March 25: Spring Break - No Journal Club
  • April 1: Tanya Phillips: COMPS II Practice. Topic: Double Tropopause Events
  • April 8: Keah Schuenemann: What career path should you take and what can you do today to get there?
  • April 15: Melissa Richards: Antarctica Field Work and Nature Article on Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year
  • April 22: Melissa Richards: GTP Workshop on a teaching journal article (TBD)
  • April 29: Donavan Wheeler: Comps II Defense practice. Topic: Cold Air Outbreaks

Fall 2008

  • August 27: Organizational Meeting
  • September 3: An Inconvenient Truth (Part 1)
  • September 10: An Inconvenient Truth (Part 2)
  • September 17: Yolanda Roberts (Atmospheric Brown Clouds: Hemispherical and regional variation in long-range transport, absorption, and radiative forcing , V. Ramanathan et. al.)
  • September 24: Marcus van Lier-Walqui: "Vertical Structures of Precipitation in Cyclones Crossing the Oregon Cascades" by Socorro Medina, Ellen Sukovich and Robert A. Houze Jr.
  • October 1: (tentative) Dave Porter (Vertical structure of recent Arctic warming , R. Graverson et. al.) and subsequent communications.
  • October 8:Cassie Wheeler - Surface Radiative Fluxes and Cloud Cover Comparison amongst Reanlayses
  • October 15: Tanya Philips - (Dangerous Assumptions , R. Pielke, Jr et al)
  • October 22:Cassie Wheeler - An Overview of the Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study
  • October 29:
  • November 5: Donavan Wheeler(not fully sure if I'll be able): No title yet, but the topic is Cold Air Outbreaks
  • November 12: Keah Schuenemann Defense Practice: Analysis of the synoptic forcing of Greenland precipitation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  • November 19:
  • November 26: (Fall Break)
  • December 3: Sam Dorsi: GRACE Observations of Glacier Mass
  • December 10: Cassie Wheeler - An Overview of Remote Sensors Deployed during the 2008 Arctic Summer Cloud-Ocean Study (ASCOS)

Spring 2008

  • January 23: SIGN UP DAY
  • January 30: Heather Walsh
  • February 6: Jason English: "The Tragedy of the Commons": Peak Oil and Climate Change
  • February 13: Yolanda Roberts: "Air Pollution Radiative Forcing from Specific Emissions Sectors at 2030" N. Unger et. al.
  • February 20: Lars Kalnajs: Out on the Ice - 3 years of field science in Antarctica
  • February 27: Sam Dorsi: The search for life on Earth from the Galileo spacecraft
  • March 5: Jamison Smith: "Teaching Science to the Rest of Us"
  • March 12: Sean Davis
  • March 19: Christa Hasenkopf - The surface of Titan and its organic inventory.
  • March 26: (SPRING BREAK)
  • April 2:
  • April 9: Mark Seefeldt / Baylor Fox-Kemper - The Academic Job Search Process.
  • April 16:
  • April 23: Keah Schuenemann: Increased runoff from melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: A response to global warming (Hanna et al. 2008, Journal of Climate)
  • April 30: Joan Alexander: Venus Express updates on Venus atmosphere dynamics

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Recommended reading: 1) Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi", 1883. 2) Day Jr., J.W. et al., Science, 315, 1679-1684, 2007. [1]

  • April 18: Tianyi Fan "Is the local climate changed by the Three Gorges Dam Project?"
  • April 25: Tanya Phillips (Analysis of Neutral Temperature and Composition using Models and ISR Observations)
  • May 2: General meeting: Come and discuss plans for next year's club.

Fall 2006

Suggestion list of "classic papers" for possible topics

Farman, J. C., B. G. Gardiner, et al. (1985). "Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction." Nature 315(6016): 207-210.

Molina, M. J. and F. S. Rowland (1974). "Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atomc-atalysed destruction of ozone." Nature 249(5460): 810-812.

Planetary wave propagation / teleconnections:

Cumulus parameterization (NOT SCIENCE OF COURSE)

Arakawa, A. and W. H. Schubert (1974), Interaction of a Cumulus Cloud Ensemble with the Large-Scale Environment, Part I, J. Atmos. Sci., 31, 674-701.

Lorenz, E. N. (1963), Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow, J. Atmos. Sci., 20, 130-141.

Blackburn, M. (1985), Interpretation of Ageostrophic Winds and Implications for Jet Stream Maintenance, J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 2604-2620.

Charney, J. G. (1948), On the scale of atmospheric motions, Geof. Publ., 17, 1-17.

Eady, E.T. 1949. Long waves and cyclone waves. Tellus, 1, 33-52.

Emanuel, K.A. 1988. Toward a general theory of hurricanes. American Scientist, 76, 370-379.

Hoskins, B. J. (1975). "The Geostrophic Momentum Approximation and the Semi-Geostrophic Equations." J. Atmos. Sci. 32(2): 233–242.

Hoskins, B.J. 1982. The mathematical theory of frontogenesis. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech, 14, 131-151.

Hoskins, B. J. and D. J. Karoly (1981). "The Steady Linear Response of a Spherical Atmosphere to Thermal and Orographic Forcing." J. Atmos. Sci. 38(6): 1179–1196.

Lorenz, E.N. 1960. Energy and numerical weather prediction. Tellus, 12, 364-373.

Phillips, N.A., 1963. Geostrophic motion. Rev. Geophys. 1, 123-176.

Phillips, N.A., 1956. The general circulation of the atmosphere: A numerical experiment. Quart. J. Roy. Meterol. Soc, 82, 123-164.

Remote sensing of aerosols:

Holben, B. N., T. I. Eck, I. Slutsker, D. Tanre, J. P. Buis, A. Setzer, E. Vermote, J. A. Regan, Y. J. Kaufman, T. Nakajima, F. Lavenu, I. Janowiak and A. Smirov (1998), AERONET-A Federated Instrument Network and Data Archive for Aerosol Characterization, Remote Sens. Environ., 66, 1-16.

Basic dynamics:

Listing of many: LIST

HOSKINS BJ, DRAGHICI I, DAVIES HC NEW LOOK AT OMEGA-EQUATION Q J ROY METEOR SOC 104 (439): 31-38 1978 (introduces Q vectors)

HOSKINS BJ THE MATHEMATICAL-THEORY OF FRONTOGENESIS ANNU REV FLUID MECH 14: 131-151 1982

HOSKINS BJ, MCINTYRE ME, ROBERTSON AW ON THE USE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ISENTROPIC POTENTIAL VORTICITY MAPS, Q J ROY METEOR SOC 111 (470): 877-946 OCT 1985

Surface flux/evapotranspiration:

ADVECTION-ARIDITY APPROACH TO ESTIMATE ACTUAL REGIONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, BRUTSAERT W, STRICKER H, WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 15 (2): 443-450 1979

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